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Frederick Ashton, founder of Britain's Royal Ballet
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LONDON Sir Frederick Ashton, founder of the Royal Ballet and as
its principal choreographer for 35 years the developer of a
distinctive English classical style, is dead at 83.
A spokesman for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, said Mr.
Ashton died Thursday night at home in Eye in Suffolk, northeastern
England. No cause was given.
He often was called Britain's one authentic ballet genius.
Among the 100 or so works he added to the company's repertoire as it
became a world ...
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